No, Steam families is now out of beta and is the default for all users I think. I'm not sure how long you can keep using the existing family sharing, but I'm guessing at some point you'll be forced to swap over.
The only risk is that if someone gets banned using your copy of a game, you'll be banned too.
So if you owned Rainbow Six, and your brother and as playing with your family copy and he got banned, you would be banned as well.
No, many steam games use steam to verify if you own the game. It's up to developers if they require their game to have steam drm or not.
If the game doesn't have Steam DRM, you can just copy the game folder and run it anywhere. But many games will require steam (with an account that owns the game) to be running before they'll open.
Man I haven't seen Hark a Vagrant for like 10 years. Completely forgot it existed.
I think these are just old stock they're selling off.
The catch is that many game publishers won't release their games on GOG, or wait for several years after release before they start to sell it there.
Technically, Steam DRM is optional and any publishers who want to can sell their games through steam without any form of DRM. The game files are transferable, and you don't need steam running or logged in to run the game. But most publishers don't want DRM removed, and so it's pretty rare.
Here's a list of Steam games that have DRM disabled. There's also a number of games that will run DRM free if you put a txt file with the game's steam ID number in it.
Previously a family member could only play your shared library if you weren't playing any game.
With this new steam families, they can play any game except the game you're actively playing (unless the family collectively owns multiple copies). So if me and my son want to play Lethal Company together we need two copies.
This implementation of steam families has been available in beta for several months. This is just the non-beta roll-out of the feature to everyone.
Glad it helped!
Tbh I think I've only run into that maybe once. But very few of my games require keyboard, so maybe I've just been lucky.
Steam versions of games tend to run a little better, and also benefit from things like Steam distributing pre-compiled shaders for the games. There are also some cases where non-steam games will require you to install specific windows components through wine for the game or in-game media to work.
Overall Fallout 4 should work, but without actually trying it I can't say if it will work without tinkering or not.
Edit: did some searching, sounds like it mostly works, but you may have to manually install xact_64 to get sound working.
Yeah I agree. The only reason to get the 64GB here is if you plan on install a 1TB SSD or something like that.